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FICTION A Conversation with Amy Tan

1: Reading a Story The Art of FictionTypes of Short FictionW. Somerset Maugham, The Appointment in Samarra Aesop, The Fox and the GrapesBidpai, The Camel and His Friends Chuang Tzu, Independence Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, Godfather Death Plot The Short Story John Updike, A & P Writing Effectively: John Updike THINKING About Plot

2: Point of ViewIdentifying Point of ViewTypes of NarratorsStream of ConsciousnessZZ Packer , BrowniesEudora Welty, A Worn PathJames Baldwin, Sonny’s Blues Writing Effectively: James Baldwin THINKING about Point of View

8. Reading Long Stories and Novels Origins of the NovelNovelistic MethodsReading NovelsLeo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis Writing Effectively: Franz KafkaTHINKING about Long Stories and Novels

9. Latin American Fiction “El Boom” Magic Realism After the BoomJorge Luis Borges, The Gospel According to Mark Gabriel García Márquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Isabel Allende , The Judge’s WifeInés Arredondo, The Shunammite Writing Effectively: Marquez

10. Poe and O'Connor CasebooksEdgar Allen Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allen Poe, The Cask of AmontilladoEdgar Allen Poe,The Fall of the House of UsherEdgar Allan Poe on WritingCritics on Edgar Allan Poe

Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor, Revelation Flannery O'Connor, Parker’s Back Flannery O’Connor on Writing

14. Listening to a Voice Tone Theodore Roethke, My Papa’s Waltz Countee Cullen, For a Lady I Know Anne Bradstreet, The Author to Her Book Walt Whitman, To a Locomotive in Winter Emily Dickinson, I like to see it lap the Miles Benjamin Alire Saenz, To the DesertGwendolyn Brooks , Speech to the Young. Speech to the Progress-Toward Weldon Kees, For My Daughter The Person in the Poem Natasha Trethewey, White Lies Edwin Arlington Robinson, Luke Havergal Ted Hughes, Hawk Roosting Anonymous, Dog HaikuWilliam Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Dorothy Wordsworth, Journal Entry James Stephens, A Glass of Beer Anne Sexton, Her Kind William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow Irony Robert Creeley, Oh No W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen Sharon Olds, Rites of Passage Julie Sheehan, Hate PoemSarah N. Cleghorn, The Golf Links Edna St. Vincent Millay, Second Fig Thomas Hardy, The Workbox William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper William Jay Smith, American PrimitiveDavid Lehman , Rejection Slip William Stafford, At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border

22. Closed Form Formal Patterns John Keats, This living hand, now warm and capable Robert Graves, Counting the Beats John Donne, Song (“Go and catch a falling star”) Phillis Levin, Brief Bio The Sonnet William Shakespeare, Let me not to the marriage of true minds Michael Drayton, Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part Edna St. Vincent Millay, What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why Robert Frost, Acquainted with the Night Kim Addonizio, First Poem for You Mark Jarman, Unholy Sonnet: After the Praying A. E. Stallings, Sine Qua Non Amit Majmudar, Rites to Allay the DeadR. S. Gwynn, Shakespearean Sonnet The Epigram Alexander Pope, Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a DogSir John Harrington, Of TreasonWilliam Blake , To H–Langston Hughes, Two Somewhat Different EpigramsDorothy Parker , The ActressJ. V. Cunningham, This HumanistJohn Frederick Nims, ContemplationAnonymous, Epitaph of a dentistHilaire Belloc, FatigueWendy Cope, Variation on Belloc’s “Fatigue”PoetweetsLawrence Bridges, Two PoetweetsRobert Pinsky , Low Pay PieceworkOther Forms Dylan Thomas, Do not go gentle into that good night Robert Bridges, Triolet Elizabeth Bishop, Sestina Writing Effectively: A. E. Stallings THINKING About a Sonnet

31. Two Critical Casebooks: Dickinson and HughesSuccess is counted sweetest I Taste a Liquor Never BrewedWild Nights — Wild Nights! I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain I’m Nobody! Who are you? The Soul selects her own Society Some keep the Sabbath going to Church After great pain, a formal feeling comes Much Madness is divinest SenseThis is my letter to the World I heard a Fly buzz — when I died Because I could not stop for Death Tell all the Truth but tell it slant There is no Frigate like a BookEmily Dickinson on Emily Dickinson

Critics on Emily DickinsonThe Negro Speaks of Rivers My PeopleMother to Son Dream Variations I, Too The Weary Blues Song for a Dark Girl Prayer Ballad of the Landlord Theme for English B Nightmare BoogieHarlem [Dream Deferred] HomecomingLangston Hughes on Langston Hughes

33. Poems for Further Reading Anonymous, Lord Randall Anonymous, The Three Ravens Anonymous , Last Words of the Prophet Anonymous, The Twa CorbiesMatthew Arnold, Dover Beach John Ashbery, At North Farm Margaret Atwood, Siren Song W. H. Auden, As I Walked Out One Evening W. H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts Jimmy Baca, Spliced WireAphra Behn, A Thousand MarytrsElizabeth Bishop, Filling Station William Blake, A Poison TreeWilliam Blake, Garden of LoveWilliam Blake, The Tyger William Blake, The Sick Rose Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving HusbandGwendolyn Brooks, The Mother Gwendolyn Brooks, The Rites for Cousin VitElizabeth Barrett Browning, GriefElizabeth Barrett Browning, How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways Robert Browning, Porphyria's LoverRobert Browning, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister Charles Bukowski, DostoevskyGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron, When We Two PartedGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron, The OceanGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron, So We'll Go No More A-RovingLewis Carroll, The Walrus and the CarpenterLorna Dee Cervantes , Cannery Town in AugustGeoffrey Chaucer, From The General PrologueGeoffrey Chaucer, Merciless Beauty G. K. Chesterton, The DonkeyJohn Ciardi, Most Like an Arch This MarriageSamuel Taylor Coleridge, Frost at MidnightSamuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan Billy Collins, Care and Feeding Hart Crane, My Grandmother’s Love Letters Hart Crane, ChaplinesqueStephen Crane, I saw a man pursuing the horizonStephen Crane, A man feared that he might find an assassinE. E. Cummings, somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond E. E. Cummings, the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished soulsMarisa de los Santos, Perfect Dress John Donne, The Good-MorrowJohn Donne, Batter my heart, three-personed GodJohn Donne, Death be not proud John Donne, The Flea John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Rita Dove, DaystarJohn Dryden, To the Memory of Mr. OldhamPaul Lawrence Dunbar, SympathyPaul Lawrence Dunbar, The PoetT.S. Eliot, PreludesT. S. Eliot, Journey of the Magi Rhina Espaillat, Agua Rhina Espaillat, BraAnne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, Adam PosedRobert Frost, MowingRobert Frost, Birches Robert Frost, Mending Wall Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California Dana Gioia, California Hills in AugustThomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country ChurchyardThomas Hardy, I Look into My GlassThomas Hardy, The Convergence of the Twain Thomas Hardy, The Darkling Thrush Thomas Hardy, Hap HD, OreadHD, Sea RoseSeamus Heaney, Digging Anthony Hecht, The Vow George Herbert, The CollarGeorge Herbert, The Pulley George Herbert, Love Robert Herrick, Delight and DisorderRobert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Tony Hoagland, BeautyGerard Manley Hopkins, No Worst, There is NoneGerard Manley Hopkins, Spring and Fall Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover A. E. Housman, Into My Heart an Air that KillsA. E. Housman, Epitaph on an Army of MercenariesA. E. Housman, Loveliest of trees, the cherry now A. E. Housman, To an Athlete Dying Young Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner Robinson Jeffers, Rock and HawkHa Jin, Missed TimeBen Jonson, On My First Son Donald Justice, On the Death of Friends in Childhood John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn John Keats, When I have fears that I may cease to beJohn Keats, To Autumn John Keats, Ode on MelancholyJohn Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's HomerXJ Kennedy, In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One DaySuji Kwock Kim, Monologue for an OnionTed Kooser, Abandoned Farmhouse Philip Larkin, Home is so Sad Philip Larkin, Poetry of Departures D. H. Lawrence, Piano Denise Levertov, O Taste and SeeShirley Geok-lin Lim, Learning to Love AmericaHenry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Tide Rises, The Tide FallsHenry Wadsworth Longfellow, Proem to EveangelineRobert Lowell, Skunk Hour Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His LoveAndrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell, The Definition of LoveAndrew Marvell, The GardenEdna St. Vincent Millay, Passer Mortuus EstEdna St. Vincent Millay, First FigEdna St. Vincent Millay, Time does not bring reliefEdna St. Vincent Millay, Recuerdo John Milton, When I consider how my light is spent Marianne Moore, The FishMarianne Moore, Poetry Marilyn Nelson, A Strange Beautiful Woman Howard Nemerov, The War in the Air Lorine Niedecker, Sorrow Moves in Wide WavesYone Noguchi, A Selection of HokkuSharon Olds, The One Girl at the Boys’ Party Wilfred Owen, FutilityWilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth Sylvia Plath, Daddy Edgar Allen Poe, The RavenEdgar Allen Poe, AloneEdgar Allan Poe, A Dream within a Dream Alexander Pope, From an Essay on ManAlexander Pope, A little Learning is a dang’rous Thing Ezra Pound, The GardenEzra Pound, Portrait d'une FemmeEzra Pound, The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter Dudley Randall, A Different Image John Crowe Ransom, Piazza Piece Henry Reed, Naming of Parts Adrienne Rich, Living in Sin Edwin Arlington Robinson, Mr. Flood's PartyEdwin Arlington Robinson, Miniver Cheevy Theodore Roethke, Elegy for Jane Christina Rossetti, SongChristina Rossetti, Amor MundiWilliam Shakespeare, When daisies pied and violets blueWilliam Shakespeare, When icicles hang by the wallWilliam Shakespeare, When my love swears that she is made of truthWilliam Shakespeare, Poor soul, the center of my sinful earthWilliam Shakespeare, When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes William Shakespeare, That time of year thou mayst in me behold William Shakespeare, When to the sessions of sweet silent thought William Shakespeare, My mistress’ eyes are nothing likethe sun Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West WindPercy Bysshe Shelley,To -- [Music, when soft voices die]Charles Simic , The Butcher ShopChristopher Smart, For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry Cathy Song, Stamp Collecting William Stafford, The Farm on the Great Plains Gertrude Stein, Susia AsadoWallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice-Cream Wallace Stevens, Peter Quince at the ClavierJonathan Swift, A Description of the Morning Alfred, Lord Tennyson, from In Memorium AHH "Old yew, which graspest at the stones."Alfred, Lord Tennyson, from In Memorium AHH "Dark house, by which I once more steal"Alfred, Lord Tennyson, from In Memorium AHH "Be near me when my light is low."Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses Diane Thiel, Memento Mori in Middle SchoolDylan Thomas, Fern Hill John Updike, Ex-Basketball Player Derek Walcott, Sea GrapesMargaret Walker, For Malcolm XEdmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose Phillis Wheatley, On Being Brought from Africa to AmericaWalt Whitman, Out of the Cradle Endlessly RockingWalt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn'd AstronomerWalt Whiman, A Noiseless Patient SpiderWalt Whitman, from Song of the Open Road Walt Whitman, I Hear America Singing Richard Wilbur, The Writer William Carlos Williams, To Waken an Old LadyWilliam Carlos Williams, The Young HousewifeWilliam Carlos Williams, Danse RusseWilliam Carlos Williams, Spring and All William Carlos Williams, Queen-Anne’s-LaceWilliam Wordsworth, Lines (Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey)William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a CloudWilliam Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations of ImmortalityWilliam Wordsworth, Composed upon Westminster Bridge James Wright, Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio Mary Sidney Wroth, In this strange labyrinth Sir Thomas Wyatt, They flee from me that sometime did me sekë William Butler Yeats, No Second TroyWilliam Butler Yeats, An Irish Airman Forsees His DeathWilliam Butler Yeats, Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop William Butler Yeats, The Magi William Butler Yeats, When You Are Old

DRAMAA Conversation with David Ives

34. Reading a PlayTheatrical ConventionsElements of a Play Susan Glaspell, Trifles Analyzing Trifles Writing Effectively: Susan GlaspellTHINKING About a Play

36. Critical Casebook: Sophocles The Theater of Sophocles The Civic Role of Greek Drama Aristotle’s Concept of Tragedy The Origins of Oedipus the King Sophocles, Oedipus the King (Translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald) The Background of Antigonê Sophocles, Antigoné (Translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald) Critics on SophoclesWriting Effectively: Robert Fitzgerald THINKING About Greek Tragedy

37. Critical Casebook: Shakespeare The Theater of Shakespeare William Shakespeare A Note on Othello William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice The Background of Hamlet William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark The Background of A Midsummer Night’s Dream William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream William Shakespeare, Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare, MacBethWilliam Shakespeare, The TempestCritics on ShakespeareWriting Effectively: Ben Jonson Understanding Shakespeare

38. The Modern TheaterRealism Naturalism Symbolism and ExpressionismAmerican ModernismHenrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House (Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp, Revised by Viktoria Michelsen)Henrik Ibsen on Writing, Correspondence on the Final Scene of A Doll’s HouseEugene O'Neill, The Hairy ApeTennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams on Writing, How to Stage The Glass MenagerieTragicomedy and the AbsurdReturn to RealismExperimental Drama Milcha Sanchez-Scott, The Cuban Swimmer Milcha Sanchez-Scott on Writing, Writing The Cuban SwimmerDocumentary Drama Anna Deavere Smith, Scenes from Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 Anna Deavere Smith on Writing, A Call to the Community THINKING About Dramatic Realism

39. Evaluating a PlayJudging a Play

40. Plays for Further ReadingsDavid Henry Hwang, The Sound of a Voice David Henry Hwang on Writing, Multicultural Theater Edward Bok Lee, El Santo Americano Edward Bok Lee on Writing Jane Martin, Beauty Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller on Writing, Tragedy and the Common Man J.M. Synge, Riders to the SeaAugust Wilson, Fences August Wilson on Writing, A Look into Black America